by saigaconservationalliance | Saturday, 24 December, 2011 | China, Mongolia, Participatory Monitoring, Population Monitoring, Russia, Saiga News, Small Grants Programme
We are pleased to announce the winners of a one-off small grants competition generously funded by the US Fish and Wildlife Service and administered by the SCA. The programme supports grassroots projects to implement the priority actions of the Medium Term Work...
by saigaconservationalliance | Monday, 7 November, 2011 | China, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Russia, Saiga News, Small Grants Programme, Uzbekistan
We are pleased to announce the winners of the 2011/12 round of the SCA’s small grants competition. This year’s competition was generously supported by CIC and the Wildlife Conservation Network. The SCA Small Grants Competition supports grassroots projects and...
by Carlyn Samuel | Tuesday, 19 October, 2010 | Population Monitoring, Russia, Saiga News, Small Grants Programme
Pavel Amosov is deputy director for science at Bogdinsk Baskunchak nature reserve in Astrakhan Province, Russia. Pavel has been working in the reserve for 2 years and is responsible for monitoring the status of the reserve’s vertebrate populations. Prior to this...
by saigaconservationalliance | Thursday, 18 March, 2010 | Russia, Saiga News
The SCA is launching an emergency appeal to help save the saiga population in pre-Caspian Russia, which is now under severe threat of extinction after a particularly harsh winter and renewed heavy poaching. Your help is needed urgently to strengthen anti-poaching...
by Carlyn Samuel | Monday, 19 October, 2009 | China, Kazakhstan, Population Monitoring, Russia, Small Grants Programme, Uzbekistan
We are pleased to announce the winners of the 2009 round of SCA’s small grants competition. This competition aims to build grassroots capacity for saiga conservation by supporting small self-contained projects within the saiga range states, undertaken by those without...
by saigaconservationalliance | Tuesday, 7 July, 2009 | Russia, Saiga News
Bonn, 25June 2009 – On the occasion of the 30th Anniversary of the Convention on Migratory Species (CMS), the Russian Federation has enhanced its support for the conservation of the Saiga antelope by signing the agreement established in the framework of the...
by saigaconservationalliance | Monday, 8 December, 2008 | Russia, Saiga News
Founder member of the SCA and Director of the Centre for Wild Animals (CWA), Yuri Arylov, has been interviewed by Russia Today as part of a story on the work of the CWA. The centre is the most successful captive saiga breeding centre in the world, and along with...
by Carlyn Samuel | Wednesday, 19 November, 2008 | Kazakhstan, Population Monitoring, Russia, Small Grants Programme, Uzbekistan
This year the Small Grants Programme received 18 proposals from five countries and was generously supported by the Wildlife Conservation Network. At the end of October the SCA Steering Committee met in Almaty, Kazakhstan for their annual meeting and to discuss the...
by saigaconservationalliance | Friday, 7 November, 2008 | Kazakhstan, Population Monitoring, Russia, Saiga News, Small Grants Programme, Uzbekistan
On behalf of the Steering Committee of the Saiga Conservation Alliance, I am delighted to announce the winners of the 2008 SCA Small Grants competition. This competition aims to build capacity for saiga conservation at the grassroots level by enabling individuals to...
by Carlyn Samuel | Saturday, 16 August, 2008 | Participatory Monitoring, Russia, Saiga News
This project was funded by the British Council BRIDGE programme, and was joint between Imperial College London (Prof. E.J. Milner-Gulland) and Kalmykia State University (Prof. Iuri Arylov). Monitoring the population size and structure of endangered species is...
